Alissa Abdullah
Deputy Chief Security Officer, Mastercard
Alissa “Dr. Jay” Abdullah is Mastercard’s deputy chief security officer. In this role she leads the Emerging Corporate Security Solutions team and is responsible for protecting Mastercard’s information assets as well as driving the future of security. She is also on the board of the Internet Security Alliance and is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Information. Prior to Mastercard, she served as the chief information security officer of Xerox. She also served as the deputy chief information officer of the White House leading the modernization of the Executive Office of the President's IT systems. Alissa holds a PhD in Information Technology Management, a master’s degree in Telecommunications and Computer Networks and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics.
